I miss the time when there wasn't any hair growing on my face. Surprisingly that was only like a year ago. Now suddenly I have to shave every day, and it sucks. I don't think I'll be ever growing a moustache or a beard

I can not shave for a week and it'll be perfectly fine, not enough hair to be really noticeable yet. Yay for really slow growing hait I guess. ^^

Kalivha wrote:

Explanation: Guru Nanak was the dude who founded the Sikh religion. He was cool. Like a Punjabi, bearded version of me. With a turban. He retired into some farming commune when he was old.

Basically geographically the area where half the important Sikh pilgrimage places are is right on the border of India and Pakistan. In the Punjab (but both halves of it). Okay. So for example Kartarpur (the place where he retired) is actually in Pakistan, but because of the fact that most Sikhs are in India they've actually constructed an "independent" corridor to the village (about 3km from the border, iirc) so the Indians can do their pilgrimage.

Lahore is the capital of the Punjab and kind of further into Pakistan. ~10m people city. There's a temple there where Guru Nanak touched a stone and left his handprint, except this handprint fits every hand. Ever. Like, even baby hands. So if I'm in Lahore anyway, I'll go there and check out this miracle to see if it's a miracle. There's another Sikh miracle that's open to the public, but that's a bit farther inland in India, so I might check it out next summer.

I just like random pilgrimages. I really want to go to Jerusalem and Mecca, but Israel and Saudi Arabia are at the very bottom of my list of countries I want to visit.

See, this sounds ******* AWESOME! I want to go there now, I might in a few years when I'm going backpacking in India.

idiggory, King of Bards wrote:

Wonder Gem PigtailsOfDoom wrote:

I know Aeth said he hates the pictures of you with that fake moustache, but I <3 them. They're funny.

Really? That picture is the best.

It creeps me out, I can't say why exactly but it's just awful.

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Theophany wrote:YOU'RE AN ELITIST @#%^ AETHIEN, NO WONDER YOU HAVE NO FRIENDS AND PEOPLE HATE YOU. someproteinguy wrote:Aethien you take more terrible pictures than a Japanese tourist. Astarin wrote:One day, Maz, you'll learn not to click on anything Aeth links.

You know, I've got too many orthodox Muslim friends lately. They all have beards. The guys, anyway. My <3 person has a beard. Andrew also sometimes has a beard. Without it he looks like a little Native American girl. \o/ beards. The only time I dated a beardless guy, he had to shave like 2-3 times a day to keep the beard from growing back in way too fast.

There was some guy I saw at uni who had this whiteish-blond insanely long beard, but it was a lot shorter in the middle so it looked like he had two side-beards. That was kind of funny.

Æth, I'm thinking if I'm in South Asia next year or in 2013, you should totally visit me for a couple of weeks. Sleep at my place, and we can do weekend trips to Kashmir or wherever. Some random Punjabi I talked to the other week said I absolutely need to check out Kashmir. Man, that area is just so full of things I want to see. I could probably spend years there just checking out random places. Plus, in Kashmir I might actually be able to pretend I'm a native, what with all the blondes they have over there...

If that works out, I'm definitely going to come visit you. Also, Andrew should keep his beard, it's cool. Beards are cool.

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Theophany wrote:YOU'RE AN ELITIST @#%^ AETHIEN, NO WONDER YOU HAVE NO FRIENDS AND PEOPLE HATE YOU. someproteinguy wrote:Aethien you take more terrible pictures than a Japanese tourist. Astarin wrote:One day, Maz, you'll learn not to click on anything Aeth links.

Also, IPA just isn't my kind of beer. I'm drinking an AVBC Hop Ottin' IPA right now and while it's tasty it's just too hoppy to be really enjoyable to me. I don't think I'm going to be trying an imperial IPA anytime soon. I'll stick to Belgians, porters and stouts.

Edited, Oct 6th 2011 6:54pm by Aethien

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Theophany wrote:YOU'RE AN ELITIST @#%^ AETHIEN, NO WONDER YOU HAVE NO FRIENDS AND PEOPLE HATE YOU. someproteinguy wrote:Aethien you take more terrible pictures than a Japanese tourist. Astarin wrote:One day, Maz, you'll learn not to click on anything Aeth links.

Theophany wrote:YOU'RE AN ELITIST @#%^ AETHIEN, NO WONDER YOU HAVE NO FRIENDS AND PEOPLE HATE YOU. someproteinguy wrote:Aethien you take more terrible pictures than a Japanese tourist. Astarin wrote:One day, Maz, you'll learn not to click on anything Aeth links.

Theophany wrote:YOU'RE AN ELITIST @#%^ AETHIEN, NO WONDER YOU HAVE NO FRIENDS AND PEOPLE HATE YOU. someproteinguy wrote:Aethien you take more terrible pictures than a Japanese tourist. Astarin wrote:One day, Maz, you'll learn not to click on anything Aeth links.

Yup. The occupy wall street thing is really taking off. A few of my friends are getting really into the movement here in our town. It's definitely something I care about, but I'm not sure how involved I will be able to get with everything else going on. Definitely going to try though.

Yup. The occupy wall street thing is really taking off. A few of my friends are getting really into the movement here in our town. It's definitely something I care about, but I'm not sure how involved I will be able to get with everything else going on. Definitely going to try though.

What was that? I couldn't hear you over the sound of the joke whooshing by